Can You Hear Me Now?
US Carrier Strike Group in the Caribbean
Pentagon orders USS Gerald R. Ford into Caribbean, first carrier sent to region
The Ford will join more than 6,000 troops and a forces including ships, planes and Marines as the U.S. ramps up strikes in Latin American waters.
Nicholas Slayton
The Pentagon ordered the Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group to sail to the Caribbean, adding one of the Navy’s largest and most potent formations to the major U.S. build-up in the region. The new deployment will add the aircraft carrier’s more than 70 aircraft and multiple destroyers to the array of firepower already sent to the region for a mission the White House insists is aimed at drug traffickers.
Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell confirmed the deployment in a statement, saying the strike group would be “in support of the President’s directive to dismantle Transnational Criminal Organizations (TCOs) and counter narco-terrorism.”
Carrier Strike Group 12 includes the USS Gerald R. Ford, the destroyers USS Bainbridge and USS Mahan and Carrier Air Wing 8. Their arrival makes this fall’s buildup one of the largest deployments of naval power since the start of the Red Sea conflict in late 2023. The strike group’s air contingent includes four squadrons of F/A-18 fighters and one squadron of E/A-18G strike fighters.
Nothing like a carrier off the coast to focus one’s attention. Or change behavior.
I like it…!!
Yup.
With three outboards to fuel I can see why they need all
those blue gas cans.
Gas costs 14 cents per gallon in Venezuela
Gas smuggling is a big business
But, that is a fishing boat. Can’t you see the poles?
Next we’ll hear that DJT is “oppressing free enterprise” or some shit like that because he’s putting a big crimp in the supply of illegal drugs coming in. Just look at Venezuela and we see just what the kingpins of the left want to inflict in the USA, one look at LA, NYC and Chicago proves that!
Time to put the fear of God into the Venezuelan military. Let them know they can and will be eliminated if they continue to support Maduro and the narco-terrorist that support him.
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The Pirate’s Cove
In case you missed it yesterday:
Preach it Mr President!
Ditto POTUS
I don’t think it can get any plainer than that you little gay thinking punk “reporter”. Any further questions, Peter Puffer Pan?
He definitely puts the Find Out in FAFO
Democrats do the “if you follow Trump’s orders we’ll get you with prosecution later” bit again:
https://www.youtube.vom/watch?v=akIXEpduXJY
Typo… pardon.
Notice how they DON’T call the Un-affordable Care Act Obama Care anymore? Trying to divorce their Saint Barry from the absolute train wreck they foisted on Americans. Their goal is to FORCE everyone to use Obama Care.
All those boats are carrying drugs. I know it, you know, HE FUCKING knows it. The Dems want the drugs…they absolutely want drugs to reach our shores. They have to keep the Permanent Underclass medicated, or they’ll rise up.
The pigs always want keep the other animals on the farm drugged and under their control. Cuz all animals are “equal.” But the pigs are always more equal.
Democrats’ favorite “happy ending” kids’ movie.
There was some confusion coming out of the gate because in some orders it was said that the strike group was supposed to deploy to “the Carab-EE-an”, while other orders specified that the group was supposed to deploy to “the CARIB-ee-an”. The confusion was finally settled when the ships were sent to “That place where all the white folks go to get the Ganja.”
No F-35s in the Ford?
Is this the B team in the Navy?
Carrier Air Wing 8 doesn’t have any F-35 squadrons assigned to it. F/A-18Es, E/A-18 G (electronic warfare) Growlers, E-2C Hawkeyes, C-2A Grayhound, and a couple of MH-60 S and R helicopter squadrons.
Carrier Air Wing 5, assigned to the USS George Washington, is the only one with F-35Cs assigned to it.
What’s an E/A-18G strike fighter?
Is that like an F-18 that does the job of an F-15 Strike Eagle?
EA-6B Prowler, more closely.
That’s a beautiful airplane.
Pity there are no A-10’s carrier capable. Seems that a few BRRTs would be less expensive than a missile or smart bomb to take out the high speed floating gas barges. Just thinking of saving a few bucks here. A low pass before firing might even convince the crew to bail out so they can be questioned as to the source of the drugs.
I would think they could mount some gun pods on some of the carrier fighters, like they did in my war.